You should know that the license agreement concerning silverlight player is not shown when you access the page using a gnu/linux box, which really isn’t too much of a problem as there isn’t an player built for fruit free *nix either. These two things make me incapable of viewing your your little video.

I was directed to this blog by a professor of mine, because you are a person who works at Microsoft and are from ‘the area’ so she thought that you would be a good person for me t o open a line of communications with concerning software and such.

A brief overview of your blog, which I skimmed back to the point at which you commented about Longhorn becoming Vista, has already caused me to ponder several questions.

What is it that makes you prefer .NET over other cross-platform languages such as JAVA or Python (my favorite)?

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